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For the beauty of the earth
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies.

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Lord of all, to Thee we raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour,
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon, and stars of light.

This hymn comes to mind each morning I come to campus. For a few minutes I just sat in the car watching the final leaves fall off the trees on Flagstaff Hill, adjacent to CMU campus rejoicing in the splendor of the creation. While reading CMU's Tartan, I came across a piece describing How Fall Leaves Work. Enjoy.

As Psalm 96 declares (the lead into GCF's prayer time this morning) . . .

Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is it;let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;they will sing before the LORD, for he comes,
he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his truth

Yes Lord, come quickly! And may we be found to have ascribed worship and obedience to you alone in all areas of life (relationships, work, neighborhood . . .)